[Advaita-l] Vishnu is abhimani devata for the organ 'paada', leg - Bodhayana Grihya Sutra

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Thank you ji for the details

Om
Raghav


On Sun, 30 Jan, 2022, 7:00 pm V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Raghav ji,
>
> The stated part appears on p. 255 of the printed book (pdf page number
> 252) of the Mysore Oriental Library Series edited by Srinivasacharya.  The
> chapter is बोधायनगृह्यशेषे द्वितीयप्रश्ने अष्टादशोऽध्यायः |  In this
> chapter, the (sutra) no.1 is the one that concerns the laghu nyasa, though
> it is not named so.  It might be strange to think of a sutra of such a
> great length😊 but there are such cases in other sutra literature too. For
> example in Gautama Dharma Sutras we have such large paragraphs numbered as
> sutra.
>
> warm regards
> subbu
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 4:58 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Subbuji for sharing these details as also help from Shri
>> Aravinda
>> Rao that the Bodhayana Grihya Sutra is the source of the popular rudra
>> laghu nyaasa.
>>
>> I downloaded one large non-searchable 480 page pdf and am trying to
>> manually see if laghu nyaasa mantras are there. If any specific Sutra
>> numbers are there, kindly share them.
>>
>> Om
>> Raghav
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Jan, 2022, 12:29 pm V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>> > During the Sri Rudra Parayana there is the practice of chanting the
>> Laghu
>> > Nyasa. The passages chanted in the present day dates back to the
>> Bodhayana
>> > Girhya Sutra, of estimated 5th Century BCE. There occurs the expression
>> > 'paadayoH vishnuH tiShThatu' (Leg Vishnu preside over the legs). This
>> shows
>> > that Vishnu is the presiding deity for the organ leg. See image below.
>> >
>> > This has been stated by Shankara too in the Taittiriya Bhashya while
>> > commenting on the Shanti mantra 'shan no vishnururukramaH'. The
>> > Srimadbhagavatam too specifies that Hari is the abhimani devata for the
>> > leg.
>> >
>> > In this article one can see many other interesting aspects of the
>> Bodhayana
>> > Grihya Sutra:
>> >
>> >
>> https://adbhutam.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/selections-from-bodhayana-gruhya-sutras.pdf
>> >
>> > In the Kannada book 'Saswara Veda mantraah' (of the Ramakrishna Mutt),
>> the
>> > laghu nyasa part occurs on p.115. This is what is followed widely today.
>> > Here for the hands the presiding deity is Indra while in the Grihya
>> sutra
>> > version it is Rudra.
>> >
>> > I thank Sri K.Aravinda Rao for reminding me of the Bodhayana resource.
>> >
>> > warm regards
>> > subbu
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